Once again I apologise if any of your suggestions haven't made the final seven, but there were so many brilliant suggestions this time.
Please make your first and second choices in the comments box below.
As soon as I've collated the votes, I'll announce the most popular on the Purple Coo main site and the most popular becomes our Purple Coo Book Club Winter Read 2012
Behind
the Scenes at the Museum by Kate
Atkinson
The imaginative
and thought provoking story of Ruby, this book explores complex family relationships,
births, weddings, divorce, death, secrets and lies, all set under the old
pebble-stone streets around York Minster.
My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
Set in the 1950s, this isn't just another period love triangle. A young woman falls for her best friend's brother, a hunky policeman, but when she marries him she finds out he's having a relationship with the suave Patrick, who's a curator at the local museum.
The Earl's Bargain by Cheryl Bolen
The impossibly young, stunningly beautiful widow Louisa Phillips finds herself penniless upon the death of her no-good husband. What's a man-hating bluestocking to do? Enter the Earl of Wycliff, who offers her financial security for life. All she has to do is travel across England posing as his wife. They're both hiding secrets; not the least of which is their budding love for each other.
The impossibly young, stunningly beautiful widow Louisa Phillips finds herself penniless upon the death of her no-good husband. What's a man-hating bluestocking to do? Enter the Earl of Wycliff, who offers her financial security for life. All she has to do is travel across England posing as his wife. They're both hiding secrets; not the least of which is their budding love for each other.
The
Promise by Lesley Pearce
Another
by the author of Belle. Set in London, 1914. Belle Reilly finally has the life
she's dreamed of thanks to a devoted husband in Jimmy and the hat shop she's
wanted to own since she was a child. But as the storm clouds of World War One
begin to gather, Belle's already turbulent life is to change in ways she never
imagined possible.
The
Richard Burton Diaries by Richard Burton
The
surviving diaries of Richard Burton are now published in their entirety for the
first time.
The
Woman who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend
A fun
Christmas read. The woman in question takes to her bed on the day her grown up children
leave home and she stays there, and from her bed begins to see herself and the
world very differently.
Two
Brothers by Ben Elton
At
times bleakly humorous, at others bleakly thought provoking, look at the life
and troubles of a Jewish family with an adopted
non-Jewish son, in inter-war Germany.
